One morning, photocopies left on an office copy machine revealed a colleague's salary. Same role. Same experience. Twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars more.
Dr. Renée Baker spent twenty-five years in financial services, holding senior roles at Wall Street firms and leading award-winning teams. The titles advanced. The offices grew. Her health, her marriage, and her sense of self did not. After finally leaving corporate life, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and her grandmother's words took on new weight: you can get another title, but you don't get more time.
Abundance Unleashed: Redefining Wealth and Success is the framework she built afterward. Baker argues that conventional success models fail because they measure a single variable, and she offers a definition of wealth that holds three together: money, mindset, and mastery.
Drawing on decades in financial services alongside research on pay equity, workplace stress, and the performance-reward gap, Baker examines why capable professionals are so often rewarded with more work rather than more freedom. She addresses negotiation and compensation directly, examines the cost of chronic overwork on health and relationships, and makes the case for building generational wealth without deferring the present to do it.
Readers will learn to recognize the performance patterns that keep high achievers overworked and undervalued, distinguish chosen goals from inherited expectations, negotiate and retain earned compensation, build wealth that outlasts them without postponing their own lives, and apply a practical blueprint for aligning money, mindset, and mastery.
Dr. Baker holds a doctorate in business administration and has spoken on wealth and financial equity to audiences worldwide. Written with candor and humor, Abundance Unleashed speaks to professionals who have achieved what they set out to achieve and found the arrival disappointing.
